Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations

Alan G. Robinson; Dean M. Schroeder

ISBN 10: 1576752828 / ISBN 13: 9781576752821

Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576752828
• ISBN 13: 9781576752821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

A worker in one of Europe’s largest wireless communication companies stumbled across an error in his company’s billing software, fixed it, and saved the company some $26 million per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to the company's website that brought the site to the top of search engine listings. A guard at the Massachusetts Department of Correction saved the prison system $56,000 a year by suggesting the use of digital cameras instead of film to process new inmates.

From simple ideas for saving time, effort, and money, to entirely new ways of doing business, front-line employees see a great many opportunities in their day-to-day work that their managers don’t. Drawing on extensive research and experience in more than 300 organizations around the world—and including numerous illustrative examples—Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder show precisely how to take advantage of the virtually free, perpetually renewable resource of employee ideas. Ideas Are Free shows managers how to tap all the ideas their employees have and gain significant advantage over their competitors.

About the Author

Alan G. Robinson is coauthor of the bestseller Corporate Creativity and teaches at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts.
Dean M. Schroeder is currently the Herbert and Agnes Schulz Professor at the College of Business Administration at Valparaiso University.